diff --git a/block/blk-cgroup.c b/block/blk-cgroup.c
index b9f4cc494ecefbf2560483bdc4685bb98d59b5d3..28d227c5ca7781aed5bb15cf37d3b0f1dcaa8d79 100644
--- a/block/blk-cgroup.c
+++ b/block/blk-cgroup.c
@@ -872,6 +872,13 @@ void blkcg_drain_queue(struct request_queue *q)
 {
 	lockdep_assert_held(q->queue_lock);
 
+	/*
+	 * @q could be exiting and already have destroyed all blkgs as
+	 * indicated by NULL root_blkg.  If so, don't confuse policies.
+	 */
+	if (!q->root_blkg)
+		return;
+
 	blk_throtl_drain(q);
 }
 
diff --git a/block/blk-tag.c b/block/blk-tag.c
index 3f33d86722688a4f50ac0064488540d1960447fb..a185b86741e5ff80dccbc5223eb570f764199d86 100644
--- a/block/blk-tag.c
+++ b/block/blk-tag.c
@@ -27,18 +27,15 @@ struct request *blk_queue_find_tag(struct request_queue *q, int tag)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_find_tag);
 
 /**
- * __blk_free_tags - release a given set of tag maintenance info
+ * blk_free_tags - release a given set of tag maintenance info
  * @bqt:	the tag map to free
  *
- * Tries to free the specified @bqt.  Returns true if it was
- * actually freed and false if there are still references using it
+ * Drop the reference count on @bqt and frees it when the last reference
+ * is dropped.
  */
-static int __blk_free_tags(struct blk_queue_tag *bqt)
+void blk_free_tags(struct blk_queue_tag *bqt)
 {
-	int retval;
-
-	retval = atomic_dec_and_test(&bqt->refcnt);
-	if (retval) {
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&bqt->refcnt)) {
 		BUG_ON(find_first_bit(bqt->tag_map, bqt->max_depth) <
 							bqt->max_depth);
 
@@ -50,9 +47,8 @@ static int __blk_free_tags(struct blk_queue_tag *bqt)
 
 		kfree(bqt);
 	}
-
-	return retval;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_free_tags);
 
 /**
  * __blk_queue_free_tags - release tag maintenance info
@@ -69,27 +65,12 @@ void __blk_queue_free_tags(struct request_queue *q)
 	if (!bqt)
 		return;
 
-	__blk_free_tags(bqt);
+	blk_free_tags(bqt);
 
 	q->queue_tags = NULL;
 	queue_flag_clear_unlocked(QUEUE_FLAG_QUEUED, q);
 }
 
-/**
- * blk_free_tags - release a given set of tag maintenance info
- * @bqt:	the tag map to free
- *
- * For externally managed @bqt frees the map.  Callers of this
- * function must guarantee to have released all the queues that
- * might have been using this tag map.
- */
-void blk_free_tags(struct blk_queue_tag *bqt)
-{
-	if (unlikely(!__blk_free_tags(bqt)))
-		BUG();
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_free_tags);
-
 /**
  * blk_queue_free_tags - release tag maintenance info
  * @q:  the request queue for the device
diff --git a/block/compat_ioctl.c b/block/compat_ioctl.c
index fbd5a67cb773886104cac49698ee589b8fbc9933..a0926a6094b28a7e4e67b3a88afc993719294405 100644
--- a/block/compat_ioctl.c
+++ b/block/compat_ioctl.c
@@ -690,6 +690,7 @@ long compat_blkdev_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	case BLKROSET:
 	case BLKDISCARD:
 	case BLKSECDISCARD:
+	case BLKZEROOUT:
 	/*
 	 * the ones below are implemented in blkdev_locked_ioctl,
 	 * but we call blkdev_ioctl, which gets the lock for us
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index 1b35c45c92b75d7f01fd3fcda7a861ae099b4c7e..3f2e1673808053a4de70077735a67723f9955b64 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -544,6 +544,12 @@ void conn_try_outdate_peer_async(struct drbd_connection *connection)
 	struct task_struct *opa;
 
 	kref_get(&connection->kref);
+	/* We may just have force_sig()'ed this thread
+	 * to get it out of some blocking network function.
+	 * Clear signals; otherwise kthread_run(), which internally uses
+	 * wait_on_completion_killable(), will mistake our pending signal
+	 * for a new fatal signal and fail. */
+	flush_signals(current);
 	opa = kthread_run(_try_outdate_peer_async, connection, "drbd_async_h");
 	if (IS_ERR(opa)) {
 		drbd_err(connection, "out of mem, failed to invoke fence-peer helper\n");